“That’s definitely it. That’s our Takeda family warehouse.”武田信一’s expression immediately became respectful.
His gaze instinctively fell upon the isolated building, and a hint of fear unconsciously crossed his eyes: “Mr. Yuquan….”
Yuquan directly interrupted 武田信一, nodding: “The Takeda family has indeed been targeted.”
“Ah?” 武田信一’s eyes flickered with both fear and guilt.
“Hmm? Does the Takeda family have any enemies?” 服部 Heiji pondered, asking a question.
“Heh! I don’t know about enemies, but perhaps we Takeda family have angered the Spider Fairy.” A gruff, aged voice suddenly echoed from within the house.
武田智惠, his hair turning white and his figure stooped, walked out. His eyes scanned the group, finally landing on Mr. Yuquan.
“Mr. Yuquan, I’m so grateful for your visit. My incompetent son… has inadvertently provoked the Spider Fairy. I’m counting on your help.”
“What Spider Fairy? It’s just a legend.” 服部 Heiji waved his hand, feeling these people were too superstitious.
“Young man, don’t talk nonsense if you don’t understand.”武田智惠 stared fixedly at 服部 Heiji, his words full of deep meaning.
“The Takeda family has always worshipped the Spider Fairy, and nothing untoward ever happened, until my incompetent son—"
武田智惠 gave 武田信一 a disapproving glare: “He turned the shrine where we used to worship the Spider Fairy into a warehouse, and since then, three people have hanged themselves in the warehouse.”
“Moreover, the death scene of each person was arranged like a spider web.”武田勇三 nodded, his voice trembling with fear as he added.
“If it was suicide, how could it be like that?”
“It doesn’t seem like suicide. Could it be a murder?” Conan couldn’t help but scratch his chin.
“Mr. Takeda, would you mind taking us to the warehouse?” Yuquan asked thoughtfully.
“Of course, Mr. Yuquan, please.” 武田信一 nodded respectfully, leading the way.
The detectives naturally followed, as did Robert.
As for 毛利蘭 and 遠山和葉, they were a little scared, but their curiosity couldn’t be suppressed, and they followed behind.
As they approached the warehouse, 武田信一 stopped abruptly: “Mr. Yuquan, the Spider Fairy wouldn’t be inside, right?”
“Don’t worry, the Spider Fairy is not at the Takeda family now.” Yuquan shook his head, reassuring 武田信一.
However, there was a lot of residual energy in this warehouse. It’s truly worthy of being a place where the Spider Fairy was once worshipped.
“Okay.” 武田信一 took a deep breath and opened the door.
“Ah, how… so many spider webs?” Seeing the warehouse filled with spider webs, 毛利蘭 couldn’t help but widen her eyes.
“After confirming that Mr. Negishi was a suicide, the police didn’t bother with this place anymore.” 武田信一 swallowed.
Conan and 服部 Heiji immediately began examining the spider webs. They were tough, even a bit sharp?
Seeing a cut on his hand, Conan was taken aback.
His mind quickly raced through information about spiders. It seemed that no spider silk could achieve this level of strength, but the “spider silk” before him didn’t seem like any rope or thread Conan knew…
Fishing line? Nylon rope? Every possibility seemed a little different.
Conan discreetly collected some spider silk and put it in his pocket, ready to ask Dr. Agasa to help examine it.
Robert, walking at the rear, couldn’t help but turn pale. He looked at the warehouse full of spider webs in astonishment.
How could…? What’s with these spider webs?
Although Robert told Yuquan and the others on their way here that he was just here to see the Takeda family, in reality—
Robert had arrived at the Spider Ridge a few days ago, and he had even killed Mr. Negishi in this warehouse.
The reason was that during their three years of friendship, Robert had fallen in love with武田美莎, but Robert hadn’t expected武田美莎 to commit suicide…
Later, during his investigation, Robert found that武田美莎’s suicide was likely due to 武田信一, who was abusive towards her, and Negishi, who was close to 武田信一.
Coupled with the discovery of武田信一 and Negishi’s secret, Robert decided to kill them as revenge.
However, Robert was very sure that although he deliberately used fishing line to make the whole warehouse look like the Spider Fairy’s vengeance when fabricating the suicide scene,
He used fishing line, that’s for sure, not these things that look even more like spider webs than fishing line!
“Three years ago, were the death scenes of Mrs. Kuan Dai and Miss Misa also like these spider webs?” Yuquan’s fingers brushed over these spider webs.
Judging from the residual energy on the spider webs, they were indeed from the so-called “Spider Fairy.”
However, the murderer of Negishi was not the Spider Fairy.
Yuquan hooked his finger, grabbing the soul of Negishi, who was trying to float towards Robert…
Negishi had only been dead for three days and was a new soul.
However, perhaps due to the Spider Fairy’s energy, Negishi’s soul was more solid than 藤江明義’s.